BMC Gastroenterology, 2022 Background Differential diagnosis between tuberculous peritonitis and peritoneal carcinomatosis remains challenging in clinical practice; thus, in-patients diagnosed with tuberculous peritonitis or peritoneal carcinomatosis were retrospectively enrolled,
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The Egyptian Journal of Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, 2023 Background The diagnosis of peritoneal carcinomatosis is challenging and can be difficult to detect with imaging, especially the detection of small-sized peritoneal lesions. The presence of peritoneal neoplastic spread alters tumour staging and is one of
Ahmed Abdelmonem Darweesh +3 more
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Role of Computed Tomography in the Evaluation of Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Journal of the Belgian Society of Radiology, 2023 Peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) refers to metastatic spread of tumor into the peritoneal cavity. Earlier, PC was thought to be associated with grave clinical outcome.
Snehal Kose
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Diagnostics, 2022 Colorectal cancer represents one of the most important causes worldwide of cancer related morbidity and mortality. One of the complications which can occur during cancer progression, is peritoneal carcinomatosis. In the majority of cases, it is diagnosed
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The role of computed tomography in planning surgical treatment of peritoneal dissemination from ovarian carcinoma [PDF]
Medicinski Podmladak, 2015 Introduction: Ovarian carcinomas primarily disseminate within the peritoneal cavity which their in the first line treatment is surgical. To make surgical treatment successful, it includes cytoreductive surgery and intraperitoneal chemotherapy.
Janković Katarina, Janićijević Jelena
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Pathophysiology of elevated ascites fluid cholesterol in malignant ascites [PDF]
, 1992 The existence of marked elevations of ascitic fluid cholesterol has been observed in patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis compared to patients with cirrhosis and has been found useful in differential diagnosis.
Alexander L. Gerbes +27 more
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Pretreatment with VEGF(R)-inhibitors reduces interstitial fluid pressure, increases intraperitoneal chemotherapy drug penetration, and impedes tumor growth in a mouse colorectal carcinomatosis model [PDF]
, 2015 Cytoreductive surgery combined with intraperitoneal chemotherapy (IPC) is currently the standard treatment for selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis of colorectal cancer.
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Peritoneal Tuberculosis Mimicking Peritoneal Carcinomatosis
Case Reports in Medicine, 2014 A 67-year-old male presented with fatigue, abdominal pain , and 30-pound weight loss over 3 months. Computerized tomography (CT) abdomen displayed ascites with thickening and enhancement of the peritoneum and mottled nodular appearing as soft tissue consistent with omental caking worrisome for peritoneal carcinomatosis.
Mehmet Akce +3 more
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BEV-IP : perioperative chemotherapy with bevacizumab in patients undergoing cytoreduction and intraperitoneal chemoperfusion for colorectal carcinomatosis [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis (PC) from colorectal cancer (CRC) benefit from cytoreductive surgery (CRS) combined with intraperitoneal chemoperfusion (IPC).
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Preclinical evaluation of local prolonged release of paclitaxel from gelatin microspheres for the prevention of recurrence of peritoneal carcinomatosis in advanced ovarian cancer [PDF]
, 2019 Patients with advanced ovarian cancer develop recurrence despite initial treatment response to standard treatment of surgery and intravenous/intraperitoneal (IP) chemotherapy, partly due to a limited peritoneal exposure time of chemotherapeutics ...
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